"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Monday, May 14, 2012

Ashtavakra Gita



King Janaka (who was listening to the Sage's words) said:
  • Truly I do not even see dualism in a crowd of people, so what would I get by replacing it with a wilderness?
  • I am not the body, nor is the body mine. I am not a living being. I am consciousness. It was my thirst for living that was my bondage.
  • Truly it is in the limitless ocean of myself, that stimulated by the colorful waves of the worlds everything suddenly arises in the wind of consciousness.
  • It is in the limitless ocean of myself, that the wind of thought subsides, and the trader-like living being's world boat is wrecked by lack of goods.
  • How wonderful it is that in the limitless ocean of myself the waves of living beings arise, collide, play and disappear, according to their natures.

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That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being:
I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad